“You think the state is going to award you GH¢7.1 million cedis, then you are joking. You think the compensation is to turn you into a millionaire,” Justice Sule Gbadegbe a panel member quizzed Mr Opeku.

According to Justice Gbadegbe, Mr Asante should pursue his re-instatement as well as compensation in relation the number of years he had spent in jail and the inconvenience he had gone through.

The court which was presided over by Mr Justice Anin Yeboa adjourned the matter to April 18.

Other Justices on the panel were Sule Gbadegbe, Paul Baffoe Bonney, Gabriel Pwamang and Yaw Appau.

Mr Asante then teaching at a basic school was sentenced in 2005 by the Tamale High Court for defiling one Rubamatu Mohammed, then a 14-year-old pupil of the school.

After an appeal failed, he proceeded to the Supreme Court in 2012 which then ordered for a paternity test which proved otherwise.

The court then presided over by Justice Anin Yeboah acquitted and discharged him on Thursday January 26, last year, after a DNA test proved that the teacher was not the father of the baby that resulted after the alleged sexual act.